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Alarm as study reveals world’s tropical forests are huge carbon emission source
- stefco_ 9y agoThis was a little vague... does anybody know how exactly degradation and disturbance cause carbon emission at such high levels? Is it just decomposition of dead organisms? If that's the case, this doesn't seem much different than other forms of carbon release due to human activity in rainforests, like burning the forests down.
- gooseus 9y agoThis article seems to explain things a little better: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tropical-forests-have-flipped-sponges-sources-carbon-dioxide https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tropical-forests-have-fl... Also actual study, Guardian's link is/was broken: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/09/27/science.aam5962 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/09/27/scien...